Ive got an internal SSD on a 2018 MBP, with these drives MacOS no longer gives you the option to secure erase the trash. Ive connected an older HDD external drive which i wish to secure erase the trash on, how can i do this in OSX 10.13…
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Lees meerI have two MacBook Pro laptops, a 13" 2012 and a 15" 2019. I want to get an external monitor. I tried using the Dell 2410 and the BenQ GW2480 external monitors. Both monitors were too bright with either of my MacBooks in my bedroom eve…
Lees meerI logged into my Mac and the progress bar went about half way when the screen blacked out, another loading progress bar showed up, after which this showed up (see image). What's going on?
Lees meerI have a deleted user home folder in the "Users" folder that does not contain anything and cannot be deleted. Can anybody suggest any ideas?
Lees meerDid you forget the password for a website you recently visited? Or perhaps, you lost the login credentials of one of your social networking accounts? Either way, if you ever logged into these websites on your Mac and saved the login credentials to K…
Lees meerAre you looking to set a new profile picture for your Apple account? Fortunately, this is fairly easy to do and you can do this right from your iPhone or iPad within a matter of seconds. If you haven’t set a profile photo for your Apple ID before, y…
Lees meerMy User's Application folder does not contain the regular Applications' folders one might expect. Instead it contains an index.dat file and a lot of sub-folders that are serially numbered (00,01,...,0f,...,9f,...,a0,...,af,...,ff) and c…
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Lees meerI am pretty computer-dumb. I am still operating on Mac OS X 10.10.5 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012 with Yosemite) and have started to lose functionality - some websites don't open, softwares don't work, etc. due to my outdated browser.…
Lees meerMy User's Application folder does not contain the regular Applications' folders one might expect. Instead it contains an index.dat file and a lot of sub-folders that are serially numbered (00,01,...,0f,...,9f,...,a0,...,af,...,ff) and c…
Lees meerToday I upgraded to Big Sur Beta3 and I cannot install anything with Brew. I get the error: Error: Your Xcode (11.6) is too outdated. Please update to Xcode 12.0 (or delete it). Xcode can be updated from: https://developer.apple.com/d…
Lees meerMy issue is similar to this one, Bootcamp says Disk Could Not Be Partitioned on Catalina Version 10.15.2 I'm on a 2019 iMac i9 27" with a 3TB Fusion that's been formatted with Catalina and APFS from the beginning, but I have successfull…
Lees meerI was running Fing on my iPhone. My Macbook Pro is on the same wireless network and I noticed that Fing not only detected my laptop's name (this is understandable, it is broadcasted, I can see it on the router too), but it also detected…
Lees meerI am pretty computer-dumb. I am still operating on Mac OS X 10.10.5 MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012 with Yosemite) and have started to lose functionality - some websites don't open, softwares don't work, etc. due to my outdated browser.…
Lees meerIt is commonly accepted that any files stored on a personal external hard drive should also be backed up elsewhere (in at least one other drive/location) since external drives can and do fail and having >=2 copies greatly reduces the ch…
Lees meerI was running Fing on my iPhone. My Macbook Pro is on the same wireless network and I noticed that Fing not only detected my laptop's name (this is understandable, it is broadcasted, I can see it on the router too), but it also detected…
Lees meerMaking Bluetooth connections with peripherals and other devices from your iPhone or iPad is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure for the most part, but sometimes you might run into connectivity-related issues. In rare cases, you might be un…
Lees meerI did the following experiment on a 21.5 retina display: Open Pages, and write some lines with Courier New at point size 4, 3, 2 and even 1. Use default screen 2K High Resolution and then set view to Actual Size Use extreme 4K Resolutio…
Lees meerI was running Fing on my iPhone. My Macbook Pro is on the same wireless network and I noticed that Fing not only detected my laptop's name (this is understandable, it is broadcasted, I can see it on the router too), but it also detected…
Lees meerI was running Fing on my iPhone. My Macbook Pro is on the same wireless network and I noticed that Fing not only detected my laptop's name (this is understandable, it is broadcasted, I can see it on the router too), but it also detected…
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